The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-16
IN BRIEF.
Compiled frOra Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

cred in critical condition now.
DIR. GEORGE b. WALKER, an alIopathic
physician, known to the profession all over
the Union, died at Evansville, Ind, on the
9Th from the effects of a surgical opera
ton. He was in the eightieth year of his
age and had practicsd for flfty-two years.
THE Prince Of Wales. accompanied by
his son, Prince Albert Victor, arrived az
Helsingoev, Denmark, on the 9th and was
saluted by the men-of-war in the harbor.
On landing the Princes were received by
the Danish royal family and the Gar and
Czarina OF Russia. They were afterward
escorted TO Frodelsborg by a guard OF
honor.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE PORTER
is to resign ON account of his wife's i'll
ness.
RUsIoRs that Prince Ferdinand is about
to abandon the Bulgarian throne are de-
MED
Ex.GovEuvoR AIKEN OF South Carolina
died on the 7th, at Flat Rock, ". C.
SECRETARY JONES of the London Peace
Society, is soon TO start for the United
States on an official mission.
MR.. RANDALL left Washington on the
9TH, without comforting with the President
on the tariff question.
THE Tory papers of London severely
criticise the Philadelphia committee for
inviting Mr.. Gladstone % be present at the
Constitutional centennial.
MRS. CLEVELAND declines to present the
flags to tho New York fire department, as
invited by Mayor Hewitt, on the ground
that the President has no part in the cere-
mony.
ANRTIN RYERsON, the well known Chi
cago millionaire, died suddenly in Bos-
ton on the 9Th Of neuralgia OF the heart.
MIR. BLAINE has concluded to remain an
other week at Homburg. His movements
thereafter are uncertain.
BY the decision Of Judge Branuou at
Davenport, Ia, on the 7th, James NJ. Pat
rick obtains control of his child, which has
been contested so bitterly by Mrs Pat
ricl's mother.
THE Acting Secretary of the Interior has
requested the Attorney General to insti
tute suit against the following parties in
Montana for unlawful fencing of the pub
lie lands: George Watkins, Geo. II. God
win, John Baringer, Sidney Padget, Car
penter & Robertson, John n. Bean, Mo
brara Cattle Company, =. B. Bishop, Co
lumbia Land and Cattle Company, Con-
cord Cattle Company, Green Mountain
Ranching Company, Bull Mountain Cattle
Company, Samuel Colfman, J. r. Dill
worth and David !. Fenuely.
COLONEL SWITzLER, chief of the Bureau
of Statistics, has prepared an important
report on wool.
JEEFERsoN DAVIS has written a letter,
in which he declares in favor OF local op
tion.
CONGRESSMAN PERRY BELMONT, Of New
Yor is one suggestion for successor tC
Governor Porter as assistant Secretary OF
State.
THE Queen has conferred the order OF
knighthood on DR.. Nioreu Mackenzie, the
EN- nent surgeon, who is attending the
Crown Prince of Germany on his journey
to the Tyrol.
CRar,rruero,r,-1t Ouppyv nf ha (yivfl.
Service Commission, has written an inn
portant letter concerning the appointing
and dischnrging power.
SEVERAL memhers of the international
Medical congress, with the ladies accom-
panyng them, called on the Sth at Oak
View, by special Invitation, to see the
President and Mrs. Cleveland.
MUCH interest is felt in Ireland and En-
gland at the trial to take place at Mitchell
town, Ireland, of William O'Brien, for al
legged violation OF the Crimes act.
THE grand jury at Montreal, Can, has
found true bill against Boodler McGari
gle, Detective Pinkerton and Colone
Hickey, Of Chicago, for conspiracy. Th'
only witness examined was James Bax
ter, who made the charge.
MGR. DoNAHUE, aged eighty, chaplain
81 st. Mary's Hospital at Milwaukee
Wis, celebrated the fftieth anniversary
81 his priesthood on the Sth. The religion
exercises were held in St. Johns Cathe
drai, whore for thirty years he wa
pastor.
Mir. GLADSTONE. in replying to the in
vitotiou of the Philadelphia commission
finally announces that he can never visi
this country as his remaining days ar
90 be devoted 90 the cause Of Irish hom
rule.
THE West Meath (Trelnnd) magistrates
sitting az Glassau, have sentenced Edito
Hayden Of the West Meath Er0miRer T.
three months imprisonment for ohstruct
ing the police during the recent evictiOns
Mr.. Hayden has appealed and has besl
released on hail
ARCHRIsHoP WALSH OF Dublin, in a LET
ter published on the Sth, says the Irisl
land question ia a commercial and not
political matter. He declares Lord Ash
bourne's scheme TO be the most suitabl
one that has vet been passed.
THE Socialists secsders from the Unite
Labor party met in New ork on the nigh
of the Sth and agreed TO call themselve
the Progressive Labor party. WilliaT
Penn Rogers presided, and about two hun
dred delegates from ward association
were present. The old Central Labo
Union platform was adopted.
E,c- -CoNGRESsMAN TALBOT, Of Een
lucky, died on the 9th at Chestnut Hi
PA.
THs report comes from Homburg tha
Mr. Blaine told Banker Seligman that h
would not accept the presidency as gift
BISHOP IRELAND says the Catholic Churc
has ceased opposition to the Knights c
Labor.
SPEAKER CARLISLE saws he has made n
answer to Thoebe because the latter ha
presented no case.
A CALIFORNIAS named RedstOne trie
to enjoin the United States Treasure
from buying any more United State
bonds,
WILLIAM O'BR1EN failed to appear in th
magistrates court at Mitchellstown, Ire
land, on the 9th, in obedience to the gov
prnment summons, and a warrant for hi
arrest has been issued.
JAY GOULD SAYS he has left the stree
but if he has to- he viii so in again an
chang somebody's hide ON the fence"
THE court martial which sat on LieuteI
ant Weber's case at Washington has RC
iourned sine die, but the finding has nC
been made public vet.
CoLoNEL LAMONT has returned to Wasl
ingtou from his vacation in New Yor
state and was at the executive mansio
on the afternoon of tho 9th.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT has refused 20 r,
lease Mrs. Fanny B. Roberts without bal
She is held ON charge of receiving Sl0,0C
of the money stolen 10y Teller Scott, Of th
Manhattan Bank
RUSSIA informs the Powers that Prime
Ferdinand must quit ruler of Bulgari,
as his rulership is in violation OF the Berli
treaty, or else she will disregard the entiI
treaty and take her own way in removin
the preteuder
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
BY watarspout on Careless creek. /
Meagre County, Mont, on the 9th, 1,2
sheep. principally lambs, were browne
on one ranch. Much damage was done
the buildings also.
TIE steamer Piover arrived at st. John
Newfoundland, on the 9Th, from the nortl
and reports a. great storm along II